Sewing-machine ruffler.



No. 793,161. PATBNTED JUNE 27, 1905.

A. SANDMEYER.

SEWING MACHINE BUFPLER.

APPLIOATION FILED APB.29,1904.

Witnesses Inventor, @M 9 Hctornegs Patented June 27, 1905.

PATENT Fries.

ANNA SANDHEYER, OF NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON.

SEWING-MACHINE RUFFLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,161, dated June 27, 1905.

Application filed April 29, 1904- Scrial No. 205,562.

To all wit/Int it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNA SANDMEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Yakima, in the county of Yakima and State of ashington, have invented a new and useful Sewing-Machine Rutlier, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rufiier attachments for sewing-machines, andhas for its object to simplify and improve the construction and produce a device of this character by means of which headed ruffles may be produced upon the fabric without preliminary folijling or folding and basting.

i/Vith these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as l1ereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages, and the right is therefore reserved of making all the changes and modifications which fairly fall within the scope of the invention and the claim made therefor.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rutlier with theimprovement attached. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the improved ruflier-guide removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view representing a section of fabric as it appears when passing through the device, and Fig. 4. is atransverse Section of the same. Fig. 5 is a view of the blank from which the improved device is struck up.

\Vith rufller attachments as heretofore constructed when it is desired to form a ruflle with a head or with a portion of the material folded over and united to the body of the material by ruflied or shirred stitching spaced from the folded edge it is necessary to lirst fold the material over and preferably baste it to hold it while the rul'l'lcr is operating. The device herein shown and described is designed to automatically fold the material when it is desired to form a headed rul'lle thereon as fast as it is :fed to the rufHer, and thus obviate the necessity for the preliminary folding and basting.

The improved device may be readily applied to any of the various forms of rulrlers manufactured, but for the purpose of illustration is shown applied to an approved form of such devices, in which 10 is the ruhler pressorfoot; 11, the operating-lever; 12, the ruttler feeding mechanism, and 12) the bracket by which the ruttlerguide is attached.

The improved device herein shown and described takes the place of the ordinary rnfllerguide and is formed from a single sheet of suitable metal bent into the proper shape and comprises a base portion ll, having the needle-apertu re 15 and spaced lingers 16 of varying lengths through which the material is threaded on its way to the rumor feeding or shirring mechanism. Extending from one side of the base portion 1% is a portion 17, having means, such as a recessed llange 18, for engagement with the clamp-screws 19 or the bracket 13. lCxtemling from the portion let is a folder consisting of a plate .20, having the extremity 21 folded beneath the same and forming a folding-guide for the material in advance of its passage to the guide-lingers 16. By this simple attachment the material is folded over the required distance to form the head 22 and passed between the portions and 21 and then the portion of the material thus folded passed beneath the linger 16,0011- :forming in length to the desired width of head, and above the portions of the base-plate adjacent to the lingers and inserted into the rutHing mechanism in the ordinary manner. Then as the rufl'ling progresses the folded edge is drawn through the portion 20 21, thus automatically folding the material which is to form the head of the rullle and producing a uniform width of head.

The device is very simple in construction,

can be readily applied to any of the various forms of rufflers manufactured, and will be a very useful and efiicient attachment to asewing-machine. By its use itis obvious that a very material saving in time and labor willbe effected.

The device may be manufacturedin=various sizes and of any desired or suitable kind of material.

As many of the fingers 16 may be-employed as required, one for each Width of the head 22 to be folded, as will be obvious.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- A folding and guiding attachment for rufflers, comprising a single sheet of metal bent to form a pair of superposed parallel arms, one of which is of less length than the other for the greaterportion of its widtlnthe shorter, upper arm having an upturned flange that is provided. witha pair of ears forengagement by supporting devices, the remaining portion of the upper arm being extended to about the length-of the lower armand' being, bent under and downward in=a plane between the planes of the two arms and parallel with both in order to forma folding-tongue, the lower arm bemy own I have hereto affix-ed my signature in the presenceof twowitnessea.

ANNA SANDM'EYER.

Witnesses;

F. BARTHOLECD,. J OHN H. LYNCH. 

